Recent publications
Book
Child, J & Ormerod, D 2023, Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law. 5 edn, Oxford University Press. <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/smith-hogan-and-ormerods-essentials-of-criminal-law-9780198873099>
Child, J, Simester, Spencer, Stark & Virgo 2022, Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine. 8th edn, Bloomsbury Publishing. <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/simester-and-sullivans-criminal-law-9781509964277/>
Article
Child, J & Hunt, A 2021, 'Beyond the present-fault paradigm: expanding mens rea definitions in the general part', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqab033
Child, J 2021, 'Knowledge by any other name: Alexander Sarch on wilful ignorance', Jurisprudence, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 236-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2021.1930372
Sullivan, GR, Crombag, H & Child, J 2021, 'Loss of control in the appeal courts', The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 200-223. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v72i2.564
Goldberg, A, Child, J, Crombag, H & Roef, D 2021, 'Prior-fault blame in England and Wales, Germany and the Netherlands', Journal of International and Comparative Law (JICL), vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 53-86. <https://www.jicl.org.uk/journal/june-2021/prior-fault-blame-in-england-and-wales-germany-and-the-netherlands>
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Hogg, C & Child, J 2024, Not Guilty by Reasons Other than Insanity. in AP Simester (ed.), Modern Criminal Law: Essays in Honour of GR Sullivan. 1st edn, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 155–176. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509956173.ch-007
Child, J & Hunt, A 2023, Inchoate Offences. in Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice. Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902990.inchoate.offences
Crombag, H & Child, J 2022, Drugs, Criminaliteit en het Strafrecht. in H Otgaar, M Jelicic & H Merckelbach (eds), Inleiding in de rechtspsychologie. Paris Legal Publishers, pp. 125-148. <https://www.uitgeverijparis.nl/en/product/435/Inleiding-in-de-rechtspsychologie#inhoud>
Child, J, Crombag, H & Fortson, R 2022, Understanding the ‘fault’ in prior-fault intoxication: insights from behavioural neuroscience. in A Reed & M Bohlander (eds), Fault in criminal law: A research companion. 1st edn, Substantive Issues in Criminal Law, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003279181-7
Comment/debate
Child, J 2024, 'The Post Office Scandal: What it is About and What can be Done?', Solicitors' Journal. <https://www.solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/the-post-office-scandal-what-it-is-about-and-what-can-be-done>
Commissioned report
Child, J (ed.) 2023, Reforming the Relationship between Sexual Consent, Deception and Mistake: CLRNN3 Report. Criminal Law Reform Now Network. <http://www.clrnn.co.uk/media/1031/clrnn3-deception-report.pdf>
Child, J (ed.) 2021, Computer Misuse Act 1990: CLRNN1: Comparative Report. Criminal Law Reform Now Network. <http://www.clrnn.co.uk/media/1028/clrnn-1a-comparative-report-on-computer-misuse-defences.pdf>
Child, J (ed.) 2021, Reforming the Relationship between Sexual Consent, Deception and Mistake: CLRNN3: Consultation Report. Criminal Law Reform Now Network. <http://www.clrnn.co.uk/media/1027/clrnn3-deception-consultation-paper.pdf>
Other contribution
Child, J & Rogers, J 2024, Why the Post Office was able to bring private prosecutions in the Horizon IT scandal. The Conversation . <https://theconversation.com/why-the-post-office-was-able-to-bring-private-prosecutions-in-the-horizon-it-scandal-220959>
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